The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-31
THE MANUFACTURERS
HAD 4 ToLKnAp1Y COOP YEAR
Though In Nails and Glass Business was mot
up to tho Average, for Well Known Ksa.
Bons-A Boom for tho Pottory-wood
Workers all Dusy --stoel and Iron.

Tho year 1887 was, generally speaking,
very good one for Wheeling manufsc.
turera. On the whole business in the In.
duntrlsl establishments has been brisker
and the income better than in recent past
yeara. The exceptions were In tho most
important Of Wheeliug'a manufactures,
however, nails and glass. In these two
branches there was nothing to brag on.
Tho local nail factories have had 90 pros
perous year 40 any in tho country, but
1t has not been a good average year, Tor
reasons that arc well known to the public,
among them ovcr production, the growing
competition Of tho wire nail and the un'
derselling In email nails cut In tack fac.
tories. The mills havo run on short time
and prices have not been satisfactory.
Factories elsewhere cut nails and sold
them without regard to the card, which
made business slow for those who OBJ
Iasryed IL. But tho leading difficulty hos
been that the mills Of the country have a
capacity for production grossly in excess
OF the greatest possible demand.
In giaps tho came difficulty has operated
TO some extent In tho came way. There IL
more glaBs made to-day than there is use
for. The Wheeling factories, however,
made some money not so much as In prou
porous years heretofore. In spite OF the
pending long ghut down, the Gales in De-
cember fell abort Of those in the Bame
m onth in 1885,
Tho most prosperous local industries
have beou the steel plante, the variouI
forms Of wood working induatrles, and thu
pottery. - ra.iSt =
! At the pottery tho year was eminently
satisfactory, Prices were good, the de-
mand satisiac!ory and the factory raj
steadily, meeting no difficulty In diDpoaini
OF all itf product. Inside OF another yea
Wheeling will have four large potteries in
stosd OF ono, and there Is every reason Il
believe that oil will meet with the sam,
SUCCESS 40 the one now in operation.
| The activity and prosperity OF Wheel
ing's one axle factory can DO inferred
from the recent considerable enlargement
Of this one, and tho project, the details o
which are given elsewhere, to build an
other large one at once. In furniture tn,
| = Coi LUG poSu EouV sNGlhRo Ollos III
planning mills have been unusually buoy
The active auason OF 1887 was with then
the best in the history Of the city.
Tho North Wheeling bottle works alone
OF the glssB works, found businees all tina
could be desired. In both Of the stovt
loundries mora goods have been produced
than In any former year, and the demand
was fully up TO the supply.
The carriage builders have had lots o
profitable work. The hinge factory hal
enjoyed better business than usual. The
tack factory also did fairly we'll. Bodley't
wagon works have prospered. The ma
chiuists have all been busy. and Sweeney
4 Sons, engine builders and founders, thu
Central foundry and Cox 4 Morrison
boiler makers, have been taxed to theil
full capacity.
Tho cigar industry proBpsred fsirly, il
spite Of machine competition at othe
places, and the smoking snd chewing
tobacco business graw to double its pro
portions at the opening Of the year.
The lantern fsctories have extended
| their trado and in one case at least OK
tended also their facilities, and the mino
industries have all enjoyed degree o
prosperity amounting slmoHt to a boom